ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1660, 15 November 1887, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, Nov. 11. Arrived, at 1.20 p.m., Mariposa, from San Francisco, GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Oct. 20. iThe s.l. Great Eastern was sold in London on October 20th nt auction for £21,000. The Registration Bill has been introduced, granting manhood suffrage and abolishing revising barristers, political agents, etc. Mr Gladstone is the author of it. Sir Charles Dilke and Lady Dilke have had an extraordinary reception from the Sultan of Turkey. They were received twice in audience, and a special State banquet was given them, when all the Minister* and the household were present. A despatch of October 20th says:— “ Fanny,” the servant girl who figured in the Dilke esse, has denied that there was the least truth in Mrs Crawford’s statement of her refusal to appear at the trial. She had nothing to do with the Dilke case. Dilke’s friends are working gradually towards some action. Dhnleep Singh has written a letter to (he pative papers of India, according to a Calcutta despatch of the 10th October, in which he says England has offered him £250,000 in settlement of his claim against the Indian Government, and he rejected the offer. Embittered by bis arrest at Aden he expresses eternal haired to the British Government, and dcelares ho will serve his new Sovereign, the Czar, with his life’s blood. Dhuloep Singh and the Executive Committee of the Indian Liberation Society, are printing in the Irish secret press hi Paris, an appeal to the natives of British India to awake from their torpor, and provethat they are “ no longer dupes of English merchants, and the slaves of the Engish Government.” The appeal is dated from Moscow. Owing to repeated applications for chips from trees felled by Mr Gladstone in Havrarden, a printed circular has been issued, fixing a unifoim charge of Is fid for a small block, or Ss per cubic foot, exclusive of carriage. Mrs Mary Von, charged with murder by shooting George Wesley Bishop, of New Zealand, on the steamship AUmeda on the Ist July last, was found guilty on October 3rd before fudge Toohy, at San Francisco, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. She declared ahe would never suffer imprisonment for life, “ Before I would submit to that,” she said, ‘‘ I will kill ray coll mate, and they would then hang me for murder.” A Government report gives the number of destitute people in London at 110,000. Mrs Annie Lacks, who throw a pancake into the lap of Mrs President Clevelanp while the latter was on the fair grounds of St. Louis with the Presidential party, was fined 50dol« for the offence. She protested she only threw the cske in fun, but the Court could not see the joke where the President’s wife was concerned. The New York Tribune of October 18th criticised Secretary Bayard’s Samoan policy; unmercifully, and especially his treatment of ex-Oonsul Groecbaum. The paper says the action of the repudiated official when he was Consul at Apia was in effect a protest and recourse against a flagrant breach of the treaty by the Germans, and because this was the case the non-allowance of Greenbaum's proceedings by Bayard was tantamount to acquiescence in German Intrigue and aggression. On October 14th the unemployed formed in a body and marched to the Mansion House, where they demanded an interview with the Lord Mayor. He declined to hold any conversation with the mob or its representatives. The crowd iosisted on an interview, but were again, refused, when they openly denounced the Lord Mayor, after which they marched back to Trafalgar Square. They stoppsd at the office of the Standard newspaper, hooting and jeering. The police attempted to move the crowd, but were resisted and driven back. Returning to the charge they seized their black banner and a number of black flags. The. mob then scattered, but shortly after rallied ; the leaders shouted “ Men assert your rights,” and the mob rushed upon the police and succeeded in forcing them back and in recapturing the black banners. The police charged again, when the turbulents broke and ran in every direction. On the 17th workman attacked the po'ice in the Strand. Thay were disponred, but massed again in Trafalgar Square, when the leaders made speeches. The police again charged, and' a general fight ensued. Several policemen wore hurt and twenty arrests were made. One of the speakers at Trafalgar: Square advocated the killing of (ho American Minister, Mr Phelps, in order .to.-give “ heart to their Chicago brethen” in endeavoring to save the lives of the condemned anarchists there, and also suggested the assassination of President Oevel.md. Fighting was renewed on the 18th. A number of the unemployed met at Hyde Park to make a demonstration. Tire police,.fearing rhe mob would pillage the shops in tho vicinity, closed the gates, and a sharp conflict ensued. Many of the crowd were thrown down and trampled upon. On October 20tb a number of . socialists and unemployed gathered in Hyde Park. One of the speakers unrolled and waved a red flag, crying “ The glorious ComrauDo.” A stampede enaued, and scores of persons in the crowd were thrown down and trampled upon. A deputation from the crowd made a visit Ip the Horne office, and had a talk with one of the r IkcUes. After the interview was concluded the police, charged tl.e mob and were met with resistance, but dispersed them after a short and sharp conflict. Many persons were injured, 'and a number of arrests we e naadeV IRIS I NEWS.; Several iifliential English and Scottish newspaper proprietors have offered the use of I heir premises, machinery,and staffs if tli l * Government closes the National Office, in Dublin. Mr Evelyn, Conservative, has resigned his se >t for I)e[ tford, b ring unwil i g to support tho Irish policy of the Government. The closing meeting of the Liberal Federation at Nottingham on 19ih October was one of the largest ever hold in England,neary fiOOOpereons being present. Tho hit of the met ting, wa« ; . when Mi Gladstone, taking a caudle in his hao!d, re»d « to egram announcing Dr Kane ha i repudiated Mr Chamberlain's Parliament for Ulster. Colonel Baunderson, tho Par-

iamentary lender of the same party, hud repudiated his land purchase scheme. The second point of enthusiasm came when JJr Gladstone referrsd to Mr ChamberUin’s demand for a plan of dealing with Ulster.

At Taum fair on October 19th, thousands of heads of cattle and sheep were offered for sale at ruinous prices, but despite the low figure there were no purchasers. Large graziers declare they cannot continue business any longer, and must take advantage of the bankruptcy laws.

Three tenants on the estate of Lord Olanricarde were evicted on October 20lh, Patrick Campbell stresuously resisted the officers, and during th® melee his daughter Margaret was struck on the head with a crowbar. Eight men and two women were arrested. A policeman named Buckley resigned bis place rather than proceed with the work of eviction. At the trial of the men for the raid on farmer Sexton’s house, where Whelan was murdered, Callenan, an informer, testified that he planned it, in order to deliver his companions over to the police, and that all his expenses were paid by the Government, The prisoners were committed for trial on the Bth, and the populace cheered them ns they were led back to the gsol. The Coroner’s inquest into the Mitchollstown riots having resulted in a verdict of willful murder against the police, Inspector Brownrigg, Sergeants Rirwio, Rider, and Brennan, and Constables Gavin and Porance, the Coroner issued warrants for the arrest of the parties. The execution of the warrants, however, was suspended by order of the Inspector-General of Constabulary, Major Saunderson, Orange leader and M.P., made a speech iu Belfast and spoke in high praise of the policy of Mr Ohambsr- . !ain and his followers. He said Govsrn- ' ment was not worth its salt unless it ant the Parnellites to oakum picking in Kilrnninliftin Gaol.

Mr Chamberlain addressed 4000 persons in Ulster Hall, Belfast, on October 12th. He said he did not intend to submit Ulster to a Dublin Parliament, became he objeerd to, submitting Ulster’s orderly and regular life to the inventors of the plan of campaign, and (he Parliament in Dublin would be simply a Dubliu-American Tammany Hall transferred from New Yoik.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The Burlington and Missouri freight trains collided near (ha village of Woodlawn, Nebraska, on October 19th. The engine and a dozen cars were wrecked and burned, A brakeraan named Davonport, confined by the debris, and seeing the flames approaching, chopped his foot off in order to escape. Lie died subsequently from the shock. Eight negroes have recently been trLd for murder at Greenwood, Miss. They have secret or thug organisations, through which they condemned certain persons to death, and cast lots as to who should do the killing. On the Ist of October the vigilants of Western Virginia lynched several desperadoes accused of murdering, the Rev.. T. P. Ryan, They went to his house for the purpose of robbery, and he warned them off, when they shot him. The district ot Charleston, where this occurred, is invested with a band of lawless men. On Sunday, tho 16th of October, as Stephen W. Rawson, a wel -known banker of Chicago, was leaving Third Presbyterian Church, at tho corner of Ashland and Odgen Avenues, he was met by hi* stepson, Ralph W. Slaymaker, who shot him on sight. After Rawson fell he fired four other shots into his prostrate body. As tho cause the assassin avers that the banker gave out he had married in Slaymaker’s mother an improper woman and an adventuress. The mother applauds the act of her son, and says her husband deserves his fate. A new political party, called the “Political Liberty Party,” has been formed in the Eastern Slates. It is composed almost wholly of Germans, and tho object of its formation is to secure tho passage of laws permitting the sale of I'tjuor he. tween the hours of 2 p.m. and 1 u’ciock on Sundays. The leaders c'aim 50,0®0 votes in New York already, and that they can give a majority in the Legislature of that State to either the Republic or Democratic party as they please. The movement of gold toward the United States from Europe during July, August, September, and Oclober is t krn by American business circles to indioto a large balance of trade in favor of the Republic. The total influx so far for tho mouths named is 12,894,092 dollars, all but half a million being in gold. The s.B. Alexa, which arrived at New York on Sept. 23rd frpra* Naples, brought among 400 passengers six or eight cases of cholera. Eight persons died of the disease, po the voyage, and for a time great alarm: in the city.. Jacob Sharp, the New York millionaire, convicted of bribery of members of the Board of Aldermen to secure street railroad franchises, was, after some legal delay, ordered to Sing Sing on the 29th Sept, to serve his sentence. Biihop Moore, of St. Augustine, Florida, hoe appealed to Rome to have the case of the Rev. D. McGlynn, of New Yoik, reopened. . Emma Abbot, known as an opera singer, being in a Methodist Episcopal Ohurch, Nashville, on Sunday, Oct. 9th, when,the Rov. W, A. Chandler .attacked from the pulpit the show business and show people, arose in her place and replied to the clergyman, defending herself and the theatrical profession. The incident created a aensati#o.